What, a politician being not entirely truthful??!

Its difficult to avoid believing that this delightful govt really wants to change to a private health system, preferably tomorrow.

Simeon Brown claimed that Dunedin hospital was not  losing Intensive care beds, despite govt cutting the nnumbers from 30 to 20, because both the original & new plans have the intention to expand to 4o. 
Eventually. Possibly. If Dunedin is really really, good. And really,really lucky.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/healt...s%E2%80%99


https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/anger...g-icu-beds

Speech at Lincoln Center Honors: ÔÇÿYou Will Go Down in History as a CatastropheÔÇÖ

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/pedro...236380848/

Left arm or right? Why it matters where you get your vaccine

https://www.stuff.co.nz/society/36066946...ur-vaccine

U.N. & Palestinian representatives have accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into Gaza, having cut all supplies since the second of March.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/559388/...t-hearings

David Seymour wants milllions more for Pharmac - & big pharma.
Pharmac is exempt form the commerce act which encourages competition; ACT has tried to overturn that.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/5248...big-pharma

I have a HP EliteBook 840 G8 Intel Core i7 @ 2.80GHz and I have messed up the battery connection.
And would like the same specs for a new laptop do I go for another i7 or Ryzen just for general home use.
There was nothing really wrong with present laptop just neds to be plugged in now to work.
I just don't understand the differences between Intel, AMD, etc.
And I don't want to go overboard.

You have to wonder at the idiocy of people who do this. This species is endangered, yet the council decided to continue to allow access to the beach, despite previous incidents.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5442...g-incident

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0r52gxqd55o



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho...39953.html



And Trump accused of a faux pas for wearing blue rather than a black suit.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...40006.html

The man's an absolute monster, clearly wihout empathy.



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-c...rcna196049

https://americasvoice.org/uncategorized/...portation/


https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-...eportation

The Epstein List: Full list of names revealed in unsealed court records

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/epstein-list-f...19481.html

Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/virginia-giuff...02111.html